ALBANY The Southwest Georgia Nurse Honor Guard comprises nurses who volunteer their time to pay tribute to the nurse at the time of their death by performing the Nightingale
It was another student at St. Mary’s Dominican High School — then a boarding school — who told Ina Brownlow back in the day that she should be a nurse.
The Nightingale Tribute performed by Nurses Honor Guard groups includes the reading of a sonnet, the lighting of a Nightingale candle and the placing of a white rose near the urn or casket of the deceased nurse. I was recently at a memorial service for a friend of mine, a registered nurse, who had died.